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General Software Discussion / Re: When your word processor begins openly mocking you, it's time to call it a day

« Last post by mouser on June 20, 2011, 12:56 AM »

Well that at least made me chuckle.. i can sympathize.. Microsoft Word often seems to have a mind of it's own.

Just think of it as part of a final exam.. If you can survive formatting it in MS Word, then you are ready to graduate.

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UrlSnooper / Re: Can expect a fix soon?

« Last post by mouser on June 19, 2011, 12:32 PM »

Well whenever it is scanning packets it shows the count in the statusbar.  I always ask that because it will show the count going up even if it doesnt find urls in the data, so it's the best thing to check for.

I never saw the packets scanned like in the older version. Thought that you got rid of that feature.

btw you can still see the raw packets if you drag the bottom of the window pane to see it (though that isn't going to help you since it's not seeming to work for you).


I'm at a bit of a loss how to help more.. it SHOULD be working.. if any other winpcap application works, url snooper should work.  i don't know why it wouldn't and i don't know how to investigate more

When the next winpcap release comes out i can look again and see if maybe that helps.. but if i'm up to date using the latest winpcap i don't know what else to do..

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UrlSnooper / Re: Can expect a fix soon?

« Last post by mouser on June 19, 2011, 11:42 AM »

Tried above. Not getting any URLs. Any idea?

But do you see the status bar showing an increasing number of packets being scanned?

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Living Room / Re: XBOX 360 with Kinect or Wii?

« Last post by mouser on June 19, 2011, 11:23 AM »

What wraith says.

I have used both for exercise (i have a friend who does video game research work and was able to borrow them for long periods), and the xbox with kinect seems to be the superior exercise tool.

The kinect exercise games can be frustrating to use, but it is real -- it really can figure out where your body is.  the wii is much more of a gimmick, pretending to know what you are doing but it's largely an illusion.

There are 3 main exercise games for kinnect currently, EA Sports Active, The Biggest Loser, and Your Shape Fitness Evolved.

EA Sports Active is the one i use the most -- it has a very annoying initial user interface, but it has the most running in it, which i like the best.  It also has a very cool feature that lets you create your own custom workouts which I like.

The biggest loser is good and gets good reviews.  Has more varied activities and tries to be more engagin.

Your Shape Fitness Evolved should be sent to every other kinect developer as a lesson in how to create a user interface for navigating and selection that doesn't make you want to smash something into your tv screen -- i don't know why the rest of the kinect games have such poorly designed user interfaces.

Since you are a coder, you have the extra incentive for the xbox kinect in that you can get the windows sdk for the kinect now should you want to code stuff for it.

Anyway, easy decision for exercise use: xbox360 with kinect.

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Skwire Empire / Re: Release: sWeather (tray-based weather app)

« Last post by mouser on June 19, 2011, 12:50 AM »

this is embarassing.. i'm several versions behind!

new version works great.

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Skwire Empire / Re: Release: sWeather (tray-based weather app)

« Last post by mouser on June 19, 2011, 12:27 AM »

still loving sWeather 

minor request: option to start up minimized to tray.

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Living Room / Re: SSD Drives - something to consider before taking the plunge

« Last post by mouser on June 18, 2011, 08:28 PM »

you people are wasting your life posting!!!!
just think it took you 20 seconds to post this.. you could have spent those 10 seconds installing an ssd drive!!!
you are wasting your lives!!!!!

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UrlSnooper / Re: Can expect a fix soon?

« Last post by mouser on June 18, 2011, 07:25 PM »

can you try enabling and disabling the non-promiscuous mode option (Only scan this computer checkbox) and test it in both modes.

and then make sure sure you click the sniff network button and surf the web and look at the statusbar in url snooper to see if its counting packet.

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Error Building TreeIcons.

« Last post by mouser on June 18, 2011, 04:39 PM »

send me your MCF file and let me have a look ([email protected]).

the other thing you can do is do is try some of the options in Tools -> Maintenance Menu and see if they yield useful info.

but first, back up your MCF (not mcp) file (and send it to me).

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Disable Auto Save totally

« Last post by mouser on June 18, 2011, 02:23 PM »

Hi Loeffel,

Here is a trick to basically do what you want:

Go to the "File Naming Template" options tab, and change the Defauilt New File Name to something that does not include %datetime%, for example just: "MyLatestScreenshot"

Then "uncheck" the box labeled "Auto sequence new file names to avoid overwriting old files"

Now each new capture will just replace the last file, so you will have only 1 screenshot file ever.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Announcing freeware/donationware "KyrCrypt 0.16"

« Last post by mouser on June 18, 2011, 02:16 PM »

not to dampen your excitement but that counter and like is for the entire site 

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UrlSnooper / Re: Can expect a fix soon?

« Last post by mouser on June 18, 2011, 02:00 PM »

all programs, url snooper and wireshark, show the same list of adapters?

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UrlSnooper / Re: Can expect a fix soon?

« Last post by mouser on June 18, 2011, 12:43 AM »

im fairly certain i fixed this problem with the latest version (the beta?) -- at least i have had no reports of the new url snooper failing on any hardware that other winpcap software works on.  if i am wrong about this, someone needs to show me an example.

the last such report i had i fixed in the latest beta, on this thread:
https://www.donation....msg235387#msg235387

(note that beta download is no longer valid because the new url snooper version came out after the beta)

so what i need to have is an example of some winpcap software working where url snooper fails (even when url snooper run as admin).  if someone can find me that, i should be able to fix.

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Living Room / Re: Where have all the trackballs gone!

« Last post by mouser on June 17, 2011, 11:16 PM »

new good review of logitech m570:
http://www.everythin...trackball-20971.html

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General Software Discussion / FreewareGenius.com: The best freeware virtual PDF printer tools

« Last post by mouser on June 17, 2011, 10:37 PM »

Here's a very useful roundup at freewaregenius today:

PDF Virtual printers are a convenient way to create PDF files. These programs can save any kind of printable document as a PDF; all you need to do is to select ‘print’ from your favorite program, then select the virtual PDF printer and get a PDF file.

There are many excellent free virtual printers. We have tested 15 of these and selected 10 of them to evaluate and compare. These (in alphabetic order) are: Bullzip PDF Printer, Doro PDF Writer, PDF Printer (PdfSvg), PDF reDirect, PDF24 Creator, PDFCreator, Perfect PDF 7 Master, Primo PDF, Print2PDF Free and qvPDF.

http://www.freewareg...rinter-a-comparison/

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Living Room / Re: SSD Drives - something to consider before taking the plunge

« Last post by mouser on June 17, 2011, 09:03 PM »

According to this talk, you are wasting your life if you don't own a SSD: http://www.livestrea...19-8aaf-35a839b6ecaa

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Living Room / Re: VIDEO: Pixels by Patrick Jean

« Last post by mouser on June 16, 2011, 09:37 PM »

cool.

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Coding Snack Guidelines / Re: idea: make scroll lock <say> remap arrow key functions to page,home, end etc.

« Last post by mouser on June 15, 2011, 10:41 AM »

I'd like to be able to choose an otherwise unused key, like scroll lock, to act as a modal switch to turn on the alternate meanings for the cursor. It seems like AHK could allow me to do this, but I'm not sure exactly how to accomplish this.

Your request seems reasonable and indeed a clever idea, and ahk should be able to handle this easily I think.

Ath: There is no need to manipulate the fn key, the idea would be to simply check the ScrollLock state and trigger the alternative keys if it is engaged.  The only tricky part is preventing the original keypress from going through.

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: HashReplace - Replace all files with identical contents

« Last post by mouser on June 15, 2011, 10:26 AM »

very nice idea!

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Living Room / Re: Ideas for web site

« Last post by mouser on June 14, 2011, 02:44 PM »

This thread is too old to revive.. discussions of website might be best handled: here.
As for our beloved dc member wordzilla.. he re-focused all his energies on his studies, specializing in network engineering.  Hopefully he will drop by and visit us when he gets some free time.

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Living Room / Re: Backup Strategy: "The Threes"

« Last post by mouser on June 13, 2011, 10:47 PM »

The main reason RAID is so attractive as a backup solution is that it is 100% automatic after it's set up.

So while it's only going to save you from a hard drive hardware failure, it does that job better than any other solution, instantaneously and with absolutely zero user intervention or maintenance.  No other software backup solution is even close to it in terms of comprehensiveness, minimal resource use, and minimal effort.

So it does have it's place, especially with hard drives so cheap.

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Living Room / Re: Backup Strategy: "The Threes"

« Last post by mouser on June 13, 2011, 10:30 PM »

RAID is a good strategy to protect you against the hardware failure of a drive.  If a hard drive suddenly stops working, RAID offers the best protection to ensure you don't lose any file data.

But hardware failure of a hard drive is only 1 of many ways you might lose data.

Others are:

• accidental deletion or overwriting of a file
• virus infection of files
• realizing you made a change to a file in the recent past that you shouldnt have and wanting to recover older version
• wanting to compare older versions of a file to figure out when you make some mistake
• theft of your pc or fire damage to house

RAID cannot help you with any of those.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: farrsubscript plugin is incompatible with some plugins?

« Last post by mouser on June 13, 2011, 10:13 PM »

Thanks for the report -- we have actually begun a process to identify these old version incompatibilities and this helps.  Hopefully it will be sorted out soon.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Overlap Wallpaper

« Last post by mouser on June 13, 2011, 06:39 PM »

Was just featured on ghacks today with a long writeup:
http://www.ghacks.ne...-desktop-background/

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AutoHotkey / Re: Question about AutoHotkey assignment 2

« Last post by mouser on June 13, 2011, 03:20 PM »

I thought about posting the problem to the AutoHotkey forum, but I don't know if that would be considered cheating. I'm just so damned hones

t!

i don't know the answer to your question about how to do it, but i can say it wouldn't be cheating to ask this question on the ahk forum.